updated Mon. April 1, 2024
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New Scientist
April 12, 2018
But in 2016, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group found that the software could lead police to unfairly target certain neighbourhoods. When researchers applied a simulation of PredPol's algorithm to drug offences in Oakland, California, it repeatedly sent officers to neighbourhoods with a high proportionÃâà...
City Limits
February 8, 2018
Mayor de Blasio at a 2016 crime statistics briefing. The Brennan Center recently won partial disclosure of materials related to the NYPD's predictive policing pilot—a technology that data scientists at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group found discriminated against poor communities of color in Oakland.
SC Magazine
January 28, 2018
... Legal, Intel, Marc M. Groman, Principal, Groman Consulting, Former Senior Advisor for Privacy, White House , Michelle Dennedy, Chief Privacy Officer, Cisco, Kalinda Raina, Head of Global Privacy, Senior Director, LinkedIn and Kristian Lum, PhD, Lead Statistician, Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
Emory News Center
January 27, 2018
It was 2012 when the small California office of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) got an unexpected call. The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights couldn't get its people safely on the ground in Syria to count how many Syrians were being killed in the ongoingÃâà...
The Guardian
December 22, 2017
Women have been sharing stories in the wake of a blogpost by Kristian Lum, a statistician at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. In an interview, Lum said she hoped her story would help other women come forward. “I can't spend the rest of my life going around trying to block people who I know areÃâà...
Boing Boing
December 10, 2017
Human Rights Data Analysis Group For more than twenty-five years, the team at the [Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)](https://hrdag.org/) has held perpetrators of mass violence accountable. They are a nonprofit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of humanÃâà...
In Justice Today (blog)
December 7, 2017
An October 2016 study by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group concluded that if the Oakland Police Department used its 2010 record of drug-crimes information as the basis of an algorithm to guide policing, the department “would have dispatched officers almost exclusively to lower-income, minorityÃâà...
LSE Latin America and Caribbean (blog)
November 22, 2017
Determined not to let this sheer magnitude guard the secrets held within it, the AHPN and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) collected a random, statistical sample of the archive documents in order to code information about document creation and acts of interest, such as crime, violence, andÃâà...
Science Magazine
June 26, 2017
When Patrick Ball was introduced to Ibero's database, the director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group in San Francisco, California, saw an opportunity to turn the data into a predictive model. Ball, who has used similar models to document human rights violations from Syria to Guatemala,Ãâà...
Undark Magazine
May 12, 2017
But the city's new effort seems to ignore evidence, including recent research from members of our policing study team at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, that predictive policing tools reinforce, rather than reimagine, existing police practices. Their expanded use could lead to further targeting ofÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
May 10, 2017
But the city's new effort seems to ignore evidence, including recent research from members of our policing study team at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, that predictive policing tools reinforce, rather than reimagine, existing police practices. Their expanded use could lead to further targeting ofÃâà...
The Conversation US
May 9, 2017
Our recent study, by Human Rights Data Analysis Group's Kristian Lum and William Isaac, found that predictive policing vendor PredPol's purportedly race-neutral algorithm targeted black neighborhoods at roughly twice the rate of white neighborhoods when trained on historical drug crime data fromÃâà...
